Committee Charges

DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE 2018-2019

*Denotes Committee Self-Charge
#Denotes New Charge

1. Perform the duties prescribed in the bylaws as follows:
   1. To make recommendations to the Vice President for Academic Affairs on changes or updates regarding developmental education.
   2. To work with the administration to produce an annual needs assessment of the developmental programs and support services, and to advise on priorities for the instructional, physical, and counseling requirements.
   3. To encourage faculty development activities in the developmental area.
   4. To advise on the development of placement criteria and progression standards of the devel¬opmental student.
   5. To work with the Office of Academic Affairs to provide a report annually to the Senate on the developmental education program.
   6. To collaborate with the administration to provide a forum once a year whereby faculty will have the opportunity to discuss issues relative to remediation/developmental education.
2. *Work to achieve the objective of improving students’ preparedness for college-level work and report to the Academic Senate on the College’s progress. In compliance with the Middle States report’s recommendation that “The College must assess the effectiveness of their remedial skills.. programs” “measure and evaluate the completion rates in the developmental programs” (MS31) and report in writing to the Academic Senate.
3. *Develop a Developmental Education Committee Procedure Manual. Send both
   electronic and hard copies to the Academic Senate office.
4. #Study the impact of ENG 100 on courses other than ENG 102.
5. #So as to promote academic success and retention, investigate how to ensure that during their first semester at the College, students who place into developmental courses enroll in the recommended sequence in which they place.
6. #Investigate and track the impact of the change in the SAT and Regents cut-off scores form placement testing exemption on student success in developmental and credit –bearing course work across the disciplines. This inquiry should investigate the exemption from Accuplacer based on NYS Regents and SAT exams from 2016 and later.
7. *Explore the use of College Level Examination Program (CLEP) scores on campus and see if it is possible to stabilize department policies on CLEP acceptance.
8. *After inquiries by students at the March 3, 2018 Senate meeting, examine the possible discrepancy between TOEFL scores accepted for placement test waiver from foreign students and those required for the domestic English Language Learner population.
9. *Create a list of developmental courses at SUNY institutions (e.g. Farmingdale, Queensboro, Suffolk, BOMCC, Kingsborough, Stonybrook) that will be accepted to fulfill developmental requirements at NCC. Write a resolution to make this change in our course transfer policy and send to the Senate.
10. *Follow up on the grading changes to developmental courses to be sure that the W grade is tracked by the Registrar and included in notification to chairs of students in K-dismissal danger.
11. *Continue to align the writing courses WRT001 of the Reading Department and ENG001 of the English Department so that students successfully completing WRT001 will move past ENG001 to the next level composition course appropriate for their credit-earning success.
12. *Explore, through Admissions and the Registrar, faculty access to student benchmarks (SAT, ACT, Regents scores, class placement), so that placement is transparent.
13. *Investigate through the Registrar the new coding of students failing the three areas that now constitute BEP codes: English, Math, and Reading. How will a new system indicate to faculty and advisors that students are in this particular population?
14. *Follow up on the grading changes to developmental courses to be sure that the W grade is tracked by the Registrar and included in notification to chairs of students in K-dismissal danger.
15. #Continue to work with the Administration, Academic Chairs to facilitate implementation of ALP for Spring 2019.